Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.

“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.

I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’

It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.